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John Caird John Caird (December 15, 1820 - July 30, 1898), theologian, born at Greenock and educated at Glasgow, entered the Church of Scotland, of which he became one of the most eloquent preachers. After being a minister in the country and in Edinburgh, he was transferred to Glasgow, becoming in 1862 Professor of Divinity in the University of that city, and in 1873 Principal.
John Cairncross John Cairncross (25 July, 1913 – 8 October, 1995) was a British intelligence officer during World War II who passed secrets to the Soviet Union during the war. He was alleged to be the fifth member of the Cambridge Five.
John Caius John Caius (November 6, 1510 - July 29, 1573), was an English physician, and second founder of the present Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Caius is a Latinized version of Kees or Keys and is thus pronounced /kiːz/.
John Calder Brennan John Calder Brennan (November 19, 1908 – February 6, 1996), a Laurel, Maryland historian, retired as a personnel specialist for the Federal Reserve. Brennan wrote a column on history and etymology for the Laurel Leader newspaper in the 1960s and 1970s.
John Caldwell (demographer) John Charles Caldwell AO (born 8 December 1928) is a leading demographer, particularly in the fields of fertility transition and health transition. Caldwell has researched extensively in Africa and South Asia since 1959.
John Cale John Davies Cale (born March 9, 1942) is a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his work in rock music, particularly as a founding member of the Velvet Underground, and he has worked in a variety of styles over the years.
John Calipari John Vincent Calipari (born February 10, 1959 in the Pittsburgh suburb of Moon Township, Pennsylvania, United States) is former professional and current college basketball coach. He lettered two years at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington before transferring to Clarion State, where he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Marketing.
John Callahan (cartoonist) John Callahan (born during July of 1951 in Portland, Oregon), is a cartoonist noted for dealing with macabre subjects or physical disabilities, maiming and dismemberment. Rendered quadriplegic by an automobile accident, Callahan draws his cartoons by clutching a pen between both hands.
John Callan O'Laughlin John Callan O'Laughlin (January 11, 1873 – March 14, 1949) was a journalist and long time publisher of the Army and Navy Journal. He began his career as a journalist writing for the Washington bureau of the New York Herald from 1893 to 1902.
John Calvin John Calvin (July 10, 1509 – May 27, 1564) was a French Protestant theologian during the Protestant Reformation and was a central developer of the system of Christian theology called Calvinism or Reformed theology. In Geneva, he rejected Papal authority, established a new scheme of civic and ecclesiastical governance, and created a central hub from which Reformed theology was propagated.
John Calvin Jureit John Calvin Jureit (1918 - September 9, 2005) was an engineer and the inventor of the Gang-Nail connector plate, used in building construction. This invention has been widely credited for the boom in affordable housing, productivity increases and improved building durability.
John Calvin Stevens John Calvin Stevens (1855-1940) was an American architect who designed residences in two divergent styles, the Shingle Style, of which he was an originator in the 1880s, and the Colonial Revival style, which dominated United States domestic architecture for the first half of the 20th century. His designs can be found along the Maine coast as well as in Portland, Maine and its suburbs.
John Cameron (cricketer) John Hemsley Cameron (born April 8, 1914, Kingston, Jamaica, died February 13, 2000, Chichester, Sussex, England) was a cricketer who played in two Tests for the West Indian cricket team in 1939. But though Jamaican by birth, Cameron played only once for Jamaica, the bulk of his first-class cricket career being spent in England.
John Campbell (Falkirk) John Campbell was a successful businessman and feudal baron who settled in the Falkirk area in the nineteenth century. Born at Craigenterviemore, Kilmartin, Craignish in Argyllshire to James Campbell (Baron of Barrichbean, Chief of Clan Campbell of Craignish and Chief of Clan MacInnes) and Elizabeth McPherson.
John Campbell (jazz pianist) John Campbell is a jazz pianist born July 7, 1955 in Bloomington, Illinois. He studied piano privately as a youth, then attended Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois in the 70s (where he was known nearly as well for his vibes work as for his piano playing) before moving to Chicago in 1977, then to New York in the 80s.
John Campbell (of Strachur) John Campbell (of Strachur), (1727-1806) often known as General John Campbell (17th of Strachur), was a British military leader and minor nobleman who succeeded Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester as commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America in 1783.inherited the title (17th of Strachur) upon the death of his father and was a direct descendant of the oldest branch of Clan Campbell], (see [[Campbell of Strachur).
John Campbell (philosopher) John Campbell is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California in Berkeley, California. Before moving to Berkeley, Campbell taught at Oxford University for a number of years, eventually holding the Wilde Professorship in Mental Philosophy.
John Campbell Greenway John Campbell Greenway (July 6, 1872 – January 19, 1926) was an American mining, steel and railroad executive: a man of many trades in many states. He also had a distinguished career as a soldier, both cavalry and infantry.
John Campbell Ross John Campbell Ross (born March 11, 1899), is the last living Australian veteran of World War I. He served as a wireless operator in the First Australian Imperial Force, enlisting in February 1918, but never left Australia or saw active service.
John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland (1636–19 March 1717), son of Sir John Campbell of Glen Orchy, and of the Lady Mary Graham, daughter of William Graham, 1st Earl of Airth, was a member of Scottish nobility during the Glorious Revolution and Jacobite risings and also known as "Slippery John". An astutely political man, Campbell was one of the men implicated in the Massacre of Glencoe.
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll Field Marshal John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll and 1st Duke of Greenwich KG (October 10, 1678 - October 4, 1743) was a Scottish soldier and nobleman. His titles were extremely high in the precedence of the Scottish peerage.
John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, KB (10 March, 1696–26 January, 1782) was a Scottish nobleman, diplomat and politician. He was the son of John Campbell, 2nd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland and Henrietta Villers.
John Candelaria John Robert Candelaria, nicknamed "The Candy Man", was a left-handed pitcher who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, California Angels, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Montreal Expos, Minnesota Twins, Toronto Blue Jays, and Los Angeles Dodgers between 1975-1993. Prior to joining the Pirates "Candy" played center for the Quebradillas Pirates in Puerto Rico.
John Capel Hanbury John Capel Hanbury is the name of the Wetherspoon's public house in Pontypool, Torfaen. The John Capel Hanbury in question was an esteemed and rich resident of Pontypool who owned the iron and coal industries in the area and lived in the manor-house, Pontypool Park House, now occupied by St.
John Capo John Capo is a theater director and playwright. He has directed the off Broadway New York productions of Terrence McNally's "It's Only A Play", the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, "The Subject Was Roses" and The Vagina Monologues.
John Capodistria Count Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias (in Greek Ιωάννης Καποδίστριας - Ioannis Kapodistrias, in Italian Giovanni Capo d'Istria, Conte Capo d'Istria, and in Russian граф Иоанн Каподистрия - Graf Ioann Kapodistriya) (February 11 1776 – October 9 1831) was a Greek-born diplomat of the Russian Empire and later first head of state of independent Greece.
John Cappelletti John Cappelletti (born August 9, 1952) is a former professional American football running back for the NFL's Los Angeles Rams and the San Diego Chargers. Prior to his professional career, he attended the Pennsylvania State University, where he won the Heisman Trophy in 1973.
John Cardinal Cody John Patrick Cody, later John Cardinal Cody, (December 24, 1907 – April 25, 1982) was an American cardinal who served as the eleventh bishop and sixth archbishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Chicago, from 1965 to 1982.
John Cardinal Wu Cardinal Wu, Cheng-Chung John Baptist 胡振中樞機 (March 26, 1925-September 23, 2002), was the fifth Bishop of Hong Kong's Catholic church. He had been a member of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Pontifical Council for Social Communications and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
John Carew Eccles Sir John Carew Eccles (January 27, 1903 – May 2, 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize together with Andrew Fielding Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.
John Carey (critic) John Carey (born 1934) is a British literary critic, and emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He was born in Barnes, London, and brought up in Nottingham as an evacuee and East Sheen.
John Carik John Carik (also known by the nickname Bible John) is a fictional character who was featured as the main supporting character in the mid-1990s comic book series Blade: The Vampire Hunter, published by Marvel Comics.
John Carl Doemling John Carl Doemling (1894-1955), artist, the son of potato farmers Leonard Doemling and Johanna Herrmann, was born in Würzburg, Bavaria. Known throughout his life as “Carl”, he spent his early years in a seminary preparing to become a priest; however, by age twelve he had opted to pursue an art career instead.
John Carmichael John Carmichael, VC, MM (1 April 1893 — 20 December 1977) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
John Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk John Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk was the son of David Carnegie and Eupheme Wemyss, a descendant of Henry Sinclair, 3rd Lord Sinclair, and was younger brother of David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk. He was born before 1611 and died on 8 January 1667.
John Carnell Edward John Carnell (1912-1972), known to his friends as either Ted or John, was a British science fiction editor known for editing New Worlds in 1946 then from 1949 to 1963. He also edited Science Fantasy from the 1950s.
John Carney (baseball) John Joseph Carney (November 10, 1866 - October 19, 1925), also known as Handsome Jack, was a professional baseball player in the late 1800's. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, United States in 1866, and made his debut with the Washington Nationals on April 24, 1889.
John Carpenter John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, film score composer and occasional actor. Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres, and is considered one of the most accomplished and influential horror and science fiction directors in Hollywood.
John Carpenter (game show contestant) John Carpenter (born 1967) was the first top prize winner of the American version of the quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, winning one million dollars on November 19, 1999. He held the record of the largest single win in United States game show history, until it was broken by Twenty One contestant Rahim Oberholtzer.
John Carroll (bishop) Bishop John Theodore Carroll, SJ, (January 8 1735 – December 3 1815) was the first bishop and archbishop in the United States — serving as the ordinary of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore. He is best known as the founder of Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic school in the United States, and the Georgetown Preparatory School, the oldest Catholic day and boarding school in the United States.
John Carroll (Manitoba politician) John Benson Carroll (born October 13, 1921 in The Pas, Manitoba; died December 1986) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1958 to 1969, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Dufferin Roblin and Walter Weir.
John Carroll (VC) John Carroll (16 August 1891 – 4 October 1971) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
John Carroll Lynch John Carroll Lynch (born August 1, 1963, in Boulder, Colorado) is an American actor, currently appearing as a district attorney in the CBS series Close to Home. He may be best known for his role as Drew's cross-dressing brother on The Drew Carey Show and for his role as Margie Gunderson's (Frances McDormand) husband, Norm, in Fargo.
John Carstairs McNeill Major General John Carstairs McNeill VC GCVO KCB KCMG (29 March 1831-25 May 1904) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
John Carter (Author) John Carter (died 1975) was an English author and Vice-President of the Bibliographical Society. His 1934 exposé, An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, co-written with author Graham Pollard, exposed the vast antique book forgery scheme of Harry Forman, the distinguished executive editor of Keats and Shelley publishers, and Thomas Wise Wise, one of the world's most prominent book collectors.
John Carter (character) John Carter is a major fictional character in Edgar Rice Burroughs' series of Martian novels. Though actually a Virginian from Earth and a visitor to Mars, he is often referred to as "John Carter of Mars" in reference to the general setting in which his deeds are recorded, in the time-honored tradition of other heroes (such as Lawrence of Arabia).
John Carter (police officer) Lieutenant-Colonel John Fillis Carré Carter CBE (1882–14 July 1944) was Assistant Commissioner "A" of the London Metropolitan Police, responsible for administration and uniformed policing, from 1 November 1938 to September 1940.
John Carter Brown John Carter Brown (1797-1874) was a book collector whose library formed the basis of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. His father, Nicholas Brown, was one of the university's namesake patrons.
John Carter of Mars (film) John Carter of Mars was a proposed film adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's eleven-volume Barsoom series. The film was to be released by Paramount Pictures and is being produced by Alphaville Productions partners Sean Daniel and Jim Jacks, who also produced The Mummy, Tombstone, and 21 other feature films.
John Carter Vincent John Carter Vincent (1900–1972) was an American diplomat, Foreign Service Officer, and China Hand. He, among others, was accused of being a Communist in the McCarthy Era, and held responsible for the Chinese Nationalist's defeat in China.
John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, 7th Seigneur of Sark, PC (22 April 1690–22 January 1763), English statesman, commonly known by his earlier title as Lord Carteret, was the son of George Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret (1667 - 1695), by his marriage with Grace Granville (September 3 1654 - October 18 1744), daughter of Sir John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath (August 29 1628 - August 1701), and great grandson of the Elizabethan admiral Sir Richard Grenville (1541 - August 31 1591), famous for his death in the Revenge at the Battle of Flores. John was Seigneur of Sark from 1715 to 1720 when he sold the fief.
John Carthy John Carthy (Irish: Seán Ó Carthaigh) (9 October 1972 - 20 April 2000) was a 27-year-old Irish citizen with a psychiatric illness. On Holy Thursday 20 April 2000 he was shot dead in controversial circumstances by the Emergency Response Unit (ERU) of An Garda Síochána at his home in Toneymore, Abbeylara, County Longford, Ireland after a twenty-five hour siege.
John Cartwright (political reformer) John Cartwright (17 September 1740 – 23 September 1824) served in the Royal Navy then joined the Nottinghamshire militia as a major. Subsequently, Major John Cartwright became a notable English parliamentary reformer and Radical, known as the "Father of Reform".
John Cartwright (rugby league footballer) John Cartwright 1965- former First Grade National Rugby League (NFL) footballer with Penrith Panthers is the inaugural coach for the Gold Coast Titans. His favoured position while playing first grade was the second row.
John Carver John Carver (1576-1621), Pilgrim leader and the first governor of Plymouth Colony, born probably in Nottinghamshire, England. Carver was a wealthy London merchant, but he left England and went to Leiden, Netherlands, in 1607 or 1608 because of religious persecution.
John Carver Meadows Frost John Carver Meadows Frost known as "Jack" (born 1915 in Walton-on-Thames, England, died 9 October 1979 in Auckland, New Zealand) was a British and Canadian aircraft designer. His primary contributions centred on pioneering supersonic British experimental aircraft and as the chief designer who shepherded Canada's first jet fighter project, the Avro Canada CF-100, to completion.
John Cassian John Cassian (c. 360 – 433) (Latin: Johannes Eremita Cassianus, Joannes Eremita Cassianus, Joannus Cassianus, or Joannes Massiliensis) is a Christian saint celebrated in the Western and Eastern Churches for his mystical writings.
John Cassidy John Cassidy is a magician and balloon sculptor who currently holds the Guinness World Record for the most balloon sculptures made in one hour. He most recently broke his own record on August 29, 2002, on The Early Show (CBS) with 494 sculptures completed.
John Castino John Anthony Castino (born on October 23, 1954 in Evanston, Illinois) is a former Major League Baseball player. Castino played as an infielder, switching most of his time between third base and second base, with the Minnesota Twins from 1979 to 1984.
John Catliff John Catliff (born January 8, 1965, in Vancouver, Canada) is a former professional soccer player who is tied for having scored the most goals for the Canadian national team with 19 in 43 appearances between 1984 and 1994.
John Cator John Cator (1728-26 February 1806) was a wealthy timber merchant and landowner responsible for the layout of much of the areas around Blackheath, London and Beckenham London, both of which were in the County of Kent during the late 18th century.
John Caughie John Caughie is a British academic, specialising in media studies. A Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, his books include Companion to British and Irish Cinema and Television Drama: Realism, Modernism, and British Culture.
John Cawood John Cawood (1514-1572) came of an old Yorkshire family of some substance and was apprenticed to John Reynes, who is best known as a bookbinder and who died in 1543 or 1544. In 1553 Cawood replaced Richard Grafton as Royal Printer.
John Cecil Masterman Sir John Cecil Masterman (January 12, 1891 – June 6, 1977) was a noted academic, sportsman and author. However, he was best known as chairman of the Twenty Committee, which during World War II ran the Double Cross System, the ingenious scheme that controlled double agents in Britain.
John Celardo John Celardo is a comic strip artist who was born on December 27, 1918 on Staten Island, NY. After studying at the Art Students League of New York and the New York School of Industrial Arts he began his professional contributing sports cartoons to Street And Smith.
John Cena John Felix Anthony Cena, Jr. (born April 23 1977), is an American professional wrestler, Hip hop music artist and actor who is signed to World Wrestling Entertainment wrestling on its RAW brand where he is the reigning WWE Champion.
John Cervenka John Cervenka (born September 30, 1959 in Pasadena, California) is a American comedian and voice over actor, best known as the announcer on Love Connection. In the late 1990s, he hosted, Burt Luddin's Love Buffet on GSN.
John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg John Cicero (; 2 August 1455 – 9 January 1499) was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1486-1499). After his death he received the cognomen Cicero, after the Roman orator Cicero, but the elector's eloquence and interest in the arts is doubtful.
John Cipollina John Cipollina (August 24, 1943 – May 29, 1989) was a lead guitarist best known for his work with the San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. He pronounced his surname with the Italian "C" (Chipollina).
John Claiborne John Claiborne (1777 - October 9, 1808) He was a son of Thomas Claiborne (1749-1812) and brother of Thomas Claiborne (1780-1856). He was a Representative from Virginia; born in Brunswick County, Virginia, in 1777; pursued academic studies; was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1798 and practiced; elected as a Republican to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1805, until his death in Brunswick County, Virginia, on October 9 1808; interment in the family burying ground of Parson Jarratt, Dinwiddie, Virginia.
John Clarel John Clarel was Lord of the Manor of Penistone in the Fourteenth Century. In 1392 a record was made stating how John Clarel left a gift of land to the people of Penistone for the building of a school for the use of the people.
John Clarence Butler John Clarence Butler (2 February 1921 - 4 June 1942) was a United States Navy officer and Naval aviator who was killed in action in the World War II Battle of Midway. He was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously.
John Clarence Webster Dr. John Clarence Webster (1862-1950) was a Canadian-born physician pioneeering in obstetrics and gynecology who in retirement had a second career as an historian, specializing in the history of his native New Brunswick.
John Clark (governor) John Clark (February 1 1761 – August 14 1821) was an American farmer and politician from Blackbird Hundred in New Castle County, Delaware, near Smyrna. He was a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as Governor of Delaware.
John Clarke (activist) John Clarke is a Canadian political activist and the founder and leading figure of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. Originally from Britain, Clarke moved to London, Ontario in the 1980s where he was a factory worker.
John Clarke (dean of Salisbury) John Clarke (1682--1757) was an English natural philosopher and dean of Salisbury Cathedral from 1728 to his death in 1757 John Clarke was the son of Edward Clarke, an alderman who represented the city of Norwich] in parliament, and the younger brother of the philosopher [[Samuel Clarke. His own works include An Enquiry into the Cause and Origin of Evil (1720) after the death of his brother Samuel, John prepared Samuel's religious lectures and sermons for posthumous publication.
John Clayton (Newcastle) John Clayton was town clerk of Newcastle upon Tyne during the 1830s and worked with the builder Richard Grainger and architect John Dobson to redevelop the centre of the city in a neoclassical style. Clayton Street is named after him.
John Clayton (Philanthropist) John Clayton was the first son of Joseph Clayton, who amassed a fortune through the startup of a series of lucrative oil companies throughout Latin America. The family moved back to New Jersey when John was three and remained there until John went to college at Wake Forest University.
John Cleese John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October, 1939) is an English comedian and actor best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for co-writing the TV series Fawlty Towers in which he played Basil Fawlty.
John Clellon Holmes John Clellon Holmes (March 12, 1926 - March 2, 1988), born in Holyoke Massachusetts, was a writer, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 book Go. Go is considered the first "Beat" novel, which depicted events in his life with friends Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Allen Ginsberg.
John Clem John Lincoln Clem (August 13, 1851 – May 13, 1937), was a United States Army general who had served as a boy in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He gained fame for his bravery on the battlefield, becoming the youngest noncommissioned officer in Army history.
John Clement John Clement was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament in the 1970s, and served a brief stint as Attorney General of Ontario in 1975 in the cabinet of Premier William G.
John Clements Wickham John Clements Wickham (December 21 1798–January 6 1864) was a Lieutenant of HMS Beagle during her second survey mission from 1831 to 1836 which took the young naturalist Charles Darwin on what became the subject of his book, The Voyage of the Beagle. Wickham was then made captain, and Commander of the Beagle on her third voyage which set off in 1837 and conducted various maritime expeditions and hydrographic surveys along the Australian coastline.
John Cleveland College John Cleveland College (JCC - also called JC by most of it's pupils) is a state comprehensive school in Hinckley, Leicestershire. The school has its origins in Hinckley Grammar School, which dated to the Tudor period, but became a comprehensive during the 1960s and changed its name in 1974.
John Cliffe Watts John Cliffe Watts (7 May, 1786 – ?? 1873) was a British military officer and architect who designed some of the first permanent public buildings in the young British colony of New South Wales, and who also later became Postmaster General in South Australia.
John Clipperton John Clipperton was an English pirate and privateer who fought against the Spanish in the 18th century. He used Clipperton Island (discovered in 1521 by Ferdinand Magellan) as his base for his raids on shipping.
John Clogston John Clogston (1954-1995) was a groudbreaking scholar in the area of news media images of people with disabilities. He made a significant contribution to mass communication research through his development of five media models, which can be used in content analyses of news coverage of people with disabilities and disability issues.
John Clough Holmes John Clough Holmes (September 25 1809 - December 16 1887) was responsible for the establishment of Michigan State University. As the co-founder of the Michigan State Agricultural Society, John Clough Holmes spearheaded the movement to build an agriculture college in Michigan.
John Clum John Philip Clum (September 1 1851 - May 2 1932) was an Indian agent in the Arizona territory who had the nickname "White Chief of the Apaches". Clum was also the first mayor of Tombstone, Arizona and founder of the Tombstone Epitaph.
John Coape Sherbrooke Sir John Coape Sherbrooke (baptised April 29 1764 – February 14 1830) was a British soldier and colonial administrator. After serving in the British army in Nova Scotia, the Netherlands, India, the Mediterranean (including Sicily), and Spain, he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia in 1811.
John Coates Professor John Henry Coates, FRS (born January 26, 1945) is a mathematician who holds (since 1986) the position of Sadleirian Professor (of pure mathematics) at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
John Cobb (motorist) John Rhodes Cobb (December 2, 1899 – September 29, 1952) was a British racing motorist. He made money as a director of fur brokers Anning, Chadwick and Kiver and could afford to specialise in large capacity motor racing.
John Cobb (politician) John Kenneth Cobb (born 11 February 1950), Australian politician, has been a National Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 2001 representing the Division of Parkes, New South Wales. He was born in Bathurst, New South Wales, and was a farmer and grazier before entering politics.
John Cockburn (Scottish politician) John Cockburn of Ormiston, East Lothian, (February 20, 1698 - November 12, 1758) was a Scottish politician, the son of Adam Cockburn of Ormiston, Lord Justice Clerk. He is also known as the father of Scottish husbandry.
John Cockcroft Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (May 27, 1897 – September 18, 1967) was a British physicist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
John Cocke John Cocke (May 30 1925 – July 16, 2002) was an American computer scientist recognised for his large contribution to computer architecture and optimizing compiler design. He is considered by many to be "the father of RISC architecture.
John Cockerill John Cockerill (August 3, 1790 - June 9, 1840) was a British entrepreneur, the founder of the company Cockerill-Sambre. He was born at Haslingden, in England, and followed in the footsteps of his father, William Cockerill, in the construction of machines to card and spin wool.
John Cocoris John Michael Cocoris (born Leonidion, Greece, September 17, 1877; died Duval County, Florida 1944) came to New York in 1895 to work in the sponge trade. In 1905, he introduced sponge diving to Tarpon Springs, Florida.
John Codona John Codona was one of the four Codona brothers who were big in the Scottish travelling fair ground in the twentieth century. John Codona Pleasure Fairs Ltd now have business holdings in the city of Aberdeen (Codonas Amusement Park, Sunset Boulevard & Miami Beach) and Banchory.
John Codrington Bampfylde John Codrington Warwick Bampfylde or Bampfield (August 27 1754 – 1796/7) was an English poet. He came from a prominent Devon family, his father being Sir Richard Warwick Bampfylde, 4th Baronet, and was educated at the University of Cambridge.

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